Though the Ebola epidemic is yet to hit Ivory Coast, the fear has, as Barry Callebaut, the world’s biggest chocolate maker, cancelled its scheduled meeting in the West African Country due to the Ebola spread in neighbouring countries.

Ivory Coast, a regional economic powerhouse and the world’s top cocoa grower, has no suspected case of Ebola and had earlier sealed its borders with affected neighbours Liberia and Guinea. Today, the country’s government announced a ban on all flights from countries hit by Ebola.

But all these measures have not succeeded in calming the worries of Barry Callebaut whose spokesman Raphael Wermuth said the annual manager’s conference, which is to hold in October with 150-200 executives expected to attend, would be moved to Davos in Switzerland because of the uncertainty of Ebola. This would have been the first time the Swiss-based firm would hold its global meeting in an African location.

“We have cancelled the meeting because of the problem with Ebola as certain people were not comfortable coming to work in the region because of that,” Reuters quotes a senior company source as saying.

However, Wermuth added that business would continue as usual. The Company has huge investments in the Ivory Coast, especially in its cocoa grinding capacity as well as infrastructure at the country’s western port of San Pedro cocoa.